installation of Fedora 7 in this article I describe my experience at the grade from Fedora Core 5 7 on Fedora
can summarize the beginning, I sometimes like to say that it was worth it, upload a new version. I think nothing of the too short publication times from the Fedora project. It is there always something on "hanker after. In November, comes out again Fedora 8 and then I will certainly wait a few more versions before I join them. Because: The cost of each Plays a lot of time and work until you get back to some extent has its usual environment together, if I now re-install or update. I decided in this case for a new installation. In the last update but had accumulated a lot of resentment which I wanted to get rid Sun
preparations I had downloaded the DVD image (x86_64) from the Fedora site
and fired. It pays to read the notes
Releasse before. Important new features and tips on installation procedure are in there. Since I am a cautious person, I backed up my partitions separately to an external USB drive. This works with the command dd
simple:
dd if = / dev / PARTITION (zBhda2) of = be PFAD_ZUR_USB-PLATTE/partition.img
when played back simply Darteien changed. So I'm sure I get my old system state at any time, quite simply get it back. The disadvantage of this method is that it takes a long time because the entire partition - the free parts - are backed up with. Besides that, I backup all the important old configuration files were also available to read. That was quite important, as it turned out soon.
Installation restart with an inserted DVD. You will see the boot screen of the DVD. Here I pressed tab
to the boot parameters supplemented with "vesa". I know from experience that, where there my Radeon x600 graphics card otherwise remains Bildschirnm black. Installation is otherwise straightforward. I chose - as mentioned - a new installation, where I determined the partitioning itself. The individual packages I installed before the clearly defined, so do not rely on the "Program Group".
The first start Now began the unpleasant part of my Fedora 7-excursion! For the first time the screen remained black as it should be just the Gnome login screen. Especially great was that
firstboot intervened and prevented at least I was able to use a text console. Well. I did not panic, but start again, this time in "Interactive mode" (press "I" during the boot process). So although I had still not an "X", but could at least prevent the launch of
firstboot and I log in as ROOT. The included editor nano-enabled me to edit the file / etc/X11/xorg.conf. There was no essentially following additional entry in the Radeon driver:
Option "monitor layout" "LVDS, AUTO"
Thus, the driver then knows also that he will use the laptop screen graphics output. The graphic modes of my screen I had also transferred from my old xorg.conf. Then Gnome ran without problems.
excursion into the new world From now on I had a lot of fun! The new design like it a lot. Here are a few things about which I am very Mioch:
- The GPL Teiber for my Radeon card now works flawlessly. Even the "Direct Rendering" is possible under glxinfo .
- Nice screen effects such as transparency and wobbling windows are no problem and work on a button (System , is deactivated again, after I had a few nasty crashes, which was nothing more.
The programs to Software Update and the graphical interface YUM I now seem to be mature. I can work with it well and therefore need no yumex more.
Many of my usual work programs in the new versions are really stable, provide better or new features. For example, start ekiga - now without the Annmeldung fails and I have to start again. The IM program pidgin
makes such a good feeling that I spontaneously - licq surrounded it. course there were some difficulties. About solutions for that I'll gradually detailed reports.
